Horton: "So take a situation involving two children in the West Bank throwing stones, one a Palestinian child, one an Israeli child living in the settlements."

"The Palestinian child will be prosecuted in a military jurisdiction with far fewer rights and protections, whereas his Israeli counterpart, living sometimes 500 metres away, will be prosecuted in a juvenile justice system which meets international standards and complies, is a sort of system you would expected in any western-style democracy."

Prosecuting settler children or adults is almost unheard of. Rare exceptions prove the rule. Slap-on-the-wrist punishments at most follow.

Palestinians are fair game. To understand their mistreatment, "come to Hebron," said Lyons.

It's the largest West Bank Palestinian city. Around 800 settlers live in its center. They're surrounded by 180,000 Palestinians.

"The effect of Israel's occupation is obvious. (Hebron's center) is a ghost town. Israeli soldiers (prevent) Palestinians (from) walk(ing) along these streets."

They've been forced out of buildings. They've been ethnically cleansed. They're denied all rights. They have no recourse.

Lyons asked Wadi'a what he thinks when he sees an Israeli soldier. "I'm scared of them," he said.

Gaby Lasky is an Israeli lawyer. "I want people to think what they would do if their five-year old child was being taken by an occupier's army, even by your local police."

"If a five-year-old was being held by an authority that is not you, you would do anything in order to try to get your child back."

"Military courts are the long arm of the occupation. We're not talking about courts of justice; we are talking about courts of occupation."

Former Israeli commander Yehuda Shaul said he "grew up believing that our actions as a military in the occupied territories (were) to protect Israel from terrorism."

"What I've learned from my three years of service and nine years of activism and Breaking the Silence...is that the main story here is about maintaining our absolute military control over (defenseless) Palestinians."

"When we see settlers attacking a Palestinian, our orders are not to intervene."

Israeli settlers harmed three-year-old Adele Biton for life. She has brain damage. Her mother Adva said:

"Eight months ago I was driving back from my parents' home, back to my home in Yakir, when Palestinian terrorists threw large building stones on my car."

"The stones, the building stones, hit Adele's head and also caused me to bump into a truck."

"We're fighting together to get her back to life." She's hospitalized.

"I don't think it's fair for her to sleep here in the bed and don't do things like children her age. It's not fair."

Most Palestinian boys convicted of stone-throwing face about three months in prison. They shouldn't face three minutes.

According to Lyons, Israeli security services devise ghastly new tactics. Young children are brutalized to extract information on their villages. Residents in them. On their parents, family members and neighbors.

Gaby Lasky added: "I can see a pattern that Israel's hasn't been able to put down the non-violent movement in the occupied territories through violent means."

"So the best way to do that is by incriminating those leaders, and the easiest way to do that, to achieve, to get those incriminations, is by arresting children which are the weakest link."

Israel uses Palestinian children for intelligence gathering. It does so by terrorizing them to collaborate.

Stiff punishment follows failure to cooperate. It includes torture and longer prison terms.

Daniella Weiss is an Israeli activist. She's a former Kedumim settlement mayor. She rejects settler lawlessness.

In the 1970s, she met regularly with Ariel Sharon. She did so when he was agriculture minister.

He was adamant then, earlier and later. "There would be no option for a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria," he said.

God promised Israel to Jews, he believed. All of it. He opposed Palestinian statehood. So do current Israeli hardliners.

Their notion of sovereignty is isolated bantustans on worthless scrubland. Palestinians can expect nothing more.

Not as long as Washington lets Israel have its way. Kerry's so-called framework agreement is structured this way.